Fritz H. Lauten

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Friedrich Hans "Fritz" Lauten (born March 3, 1935 in Cologne ; † June 9, 1989 there ) was a German artist and glass painter .

Life

Fritz Lauten was born in a traditional Cologne glass workshop in 1935. At that time, the Lauten stained glass workshop was already well known. In 1901 the grandfather founded the company. Even the founder's son, Hans Lauten, purposefully brought the work to a high artistic level: He studied with the well-known Art Nouveau painter of Rhenish Cubism , Johan Thorn Prikker . Hans Lauten then passed this academic tradition on to his son Fritz. Eight-year-old Fritz came to Bornen near Kürten as early as 1943 , because the war had also destroyed his parents' traditional business in Cologne. Nevertheless, Fritz Lauten never parted with Cologne, but most of his work was created in Bornen. As a young man, Fritz Lauten completed an art glass apprenticeship in his father's company, but also received classical artistic training. Unusually early, because he was obviously highly gifted, he started at the Cologne factory schools at the age of sixteen . The director there took special care of him.

In the following years he became a private student of the expressionist Fritz Schaefler , which is why he initially moved to Munich. In 1951 he began studying free painting at the Cologne Werkschulen with Friedrich Vordemberge , before studying with professors Hans Kuhn (monumental painting), Hans Uhlmann (drawing, sculpture) and Will Grohmann from 1955 at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Berlin . Here he not only studied painting, but also sculpture. Since 1965 he has worked as a freelance glass artist and has already had success in solo and group exhibitions. A year later he took over his father's glass painter's workshop in Bornen - and with it countless secular and sacred building orders. The time of starting a family (birth of the sons Anno * 1967 and Tobias * 1971) also fell into a period of intense creativity. The Cologne artist scene became increasingly aware of him.

Tombstone

In 1969 he initiated the first of his legendary Kürten-Fästiwels , which he held annually at Whitsun in Bornen for twenty years until the year of his death. In the same year he received an honorary diploma for his achievements at the International Exhibition for Applied Art in Stuttgart. In 1971 he founded the artist group "kölnerschule" together with Will Thonett , Marianne Tralau , Clärchen Baus-Mattar and Hermann J. Baus . In 1983 two films designed by Lauten were shown: “Picture Riddles” (WDR, director: Dr. K. Katz) and “Meisterstücke” (for Internationes Bonn, director: HR Eisenhauer, NFP). In 1987 Lauten was able to carry out his largest church commission: the window design for the Protestant town church in Solingen, which could only be completed after his death. Fritz H. Lauten died on June 9, 1989 in Cologne through suicide. The Cologne gallery owner and art mediator Ingo Kümmel formulated freely after Jean Arp in his funeral speech for Fritz Lauten: "Woe, our good Kaspar is dead ..." His grave is in the Melaten cemetery (Corridor 19 (D)).

Luten's characteristic glass art lives on. His brilliantly colored glass pictures and window panes can be seen on a number of buildings between Cologne and the Bergisches Land. The Kürten town hall alone houses more than a dozen of his works. In the summer of 2013, the Hentrich Glass Museum (Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf) presented an exhibition of the NRW state prize winners in the field of glass art, where two flagships by Fritz Lauten, who was honored in 1971, were presented. The filmmaker Christoph Felder is currently working on a comprehensive documentation of the life and work of Fritz Lauten.

Honors

  • 1969 honorary diploma, international exhibition for applied arts, Stuttgart.
  • 1971 State Prize for Crafts in North Rhine-Westphalia
  • 1974 State Prize (gold medal) Bavaria

reception

Gisela Reineking von Bock: “And this is the special thing that Fritz Lauten has grown into a generation that didn't just come up with the idea of ​​making glass pictures, but that he was from the cradle, not just from the first steps , this material - these shining glass panes - was experienced around you and confronted with the problems, but also with its charms, from youth on. "

Works

Window:

  • Erlöserkirche (Rodenkirchen) (ev.), Cologne-Rodenkirchen, Sürther Str. 34
  • Auferstehungskirche (ev.), Cologne-Sürth, Auferstehungskirchweg 7
  • Parish Church of Christ Resurrection of the Old Catholics, Cologne, Jülicher Str. 28, window of the emergency church (post-war church) - now in the foyer of the parish church
  • Church of the Resurrection (ev.), Cologne-Bocklemünd, Görlinger-Zentrum 39
  • Emmanuelkirche (ev.), Cologne-Rondorf, Carl-Jatho-Str. 1 (based on a motif by Franz Wilhelm Seiwert)
  • Maria Magdalene Church (ev.), Niederkassel-Rheidt, Oberstr. 205
  • Dietrich Bonhoeffer Church (ev.), Cologne-Lindenthal (Gleueler Str., Deckstein)
  • St. Gertrud (Cologne) (Catholic), Krefelder Str., (Architect: G. Böhm)
  • Ev. Parish hall "Under God's grace", Cologne-Widdersdorf, Zum Dammfelde 37
  • Church of the Heilsbrunnen (ev.), Bergisch Gladbach-Hebborn, Im Kleefeld 23
  • Immanuelkirche (ev.), Bonn-Bad Godesberg Heiderhof, Tulpenbaumweg 2
  • Ev. City Church, Solingen-Mitte, Kirchplatz / Fronhof
  • City Hall Kürten
  • JVA Attendorn
  • Cemetery chapels in Kaarst-Büttgen near Neuss, Halver, Kürten-Biesfeld, Winterborn (Nümbrecht), Gimborn (Hülsenbusch / Gummersbach), Strombach (Gummersbach)
  • Old Seminar, Wipperfürth, Lüdenscheider Str. 48 (Council Chamber)
  • Music school (former secondary school) of the city of Wipperfürth, Am Mühlenberg 1
  • Dabringhausen community
  • Overath community center
  • Coat of arms of the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis (meeting room)
  • Free Christian Comprehensive School (formerly the Office for Agricultural Order), Siegburg, Frankfurter Str. 86 (window is stored)
  • Kreissparkasse Köln in: Cologne (Neumarkt / Gertrudenstrasse), Kürten, Lindlar, Engelskirchen
  • Gilden Brewery (formerly Bergische Löwenbrauerei), Cologne-Mülheim, Bergisch-Gladbacher-Str. 116-134
  • Cologne restaurants: u. a. Beer donkey (Breite Str. 114)
  • Cycle of glass windows in the studio of the Solingen painter Bettina Heinen-Ayech (* 1937), the so-called "Red House" in Solingen Höhscheid.

literature

  • Peter Bergthaller: Glasmalerei in Kölner Kirchen, 2013, p. 8 fig., P. 132-136, B. Kühlen Verlag, Mönchengladbach, ISBN 978-3-87448-367-4 .
  • Hans Fahlenbock: A Cologne glass painting at home in Olpe. In: Kürtener Schriften 8/2011, pp. 234–237
  • Gert Körner: The Lauten-Fästiwels - Famous festivals and bizarre art events. In: Kürtener Schriften 8/2011, pp. 260–268
  • Günther Paffrath: Encounters with the Lauten family. In: Kürtener Schriften 8/2011, pp. 269–270
  • Ute Ströbel-Dettmer: Between gloss and lead gray, light and shadow: the glass artist Fritz H. Lauten. In: Kürtener Schriften 8/2011, pp. 238–259
  • Review of the life and work of Fritz H. Lauten. Ed .: Association for Art and Culture in Kürten eV, together with various authors and photographers. - Catalog, exhibition, accompanying event: funded by the Kulturstiftung der Kreissparkasse Köln and the municipal administration Kürten, 1994, in it: Hans Ulrich Wiese: Sonne im Schattenreich - Lauten. In: Shine in my shadow's shrine. P. 48 f.
  • "Call the press, it's spring". Life and work of the Kürten glass designer Fritz Hans Lauten. Documentary by Christoph Felder (2012)

Web links, press, articles

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gisela Reineking von Bock in: "Review of the life and work of Fritz H. Lauten", Ed .: Community for Art and Culture in Kürten eV, 1994, p. 14
personal data
SURNAME Lauten, Fritz H.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lauten, Friedrich Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist and glass painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 1989
Place of death Cologne